NASA Announces Partnership Opportunities for U.S. Commercial Lunar Lander Capabi

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On October 1, 2015 Moon Express announced Oct. 1 that it is buying three launches for its lunar lander spacecraft from Rocket Lab. Two of the launches are due to take place in 2017. Moon Express plans to send to the moon smaller versions of its MX-1 lunar lander.

http://spacenews.com/moon-express-buys-rocket-lab-launches-for-lunar-missions/#sthash.QhoTQwNN.dpuf

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Saw someone do a lander, one of the best designs seen a long while...


saw the pic and lost it....it lands then an army tank like rover comes out

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Someone did a AIAA Paper sometime ago took the x37 for lunar operations.... Boeing run with it

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Saw someone do a lander, one of the best designs seen a long while...


saw the pic and lost it....it lands then an army tank like rover comes out

Astrobotic put this video about their lander out in 2014.

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Saw someone do a lander, one of the best designs seen a long while...


saw the pic and lost it....it lands then an army tank like rover comes out

Astrobotic put this video about their lander out in 2014.

maybe, still looks different than this pic somehow

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maybe, still looks different than this pic somehow

The photograph is the P2 prototype from Carnegie Mellon University.
http://lunar.cs.cmu.edu/about-us/#heritage

Their latest rover is the Andy Rover.
http://lunar.cs.cmu.edu/andy/#andy-banner